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 one will give as high as eight gallons a day, 

 but four or five in the common quantity. 

 Three, do not more than maintain one hog. 

 Their winter food is ftraw and hay : Their 

 calves they fufFer to fuck but a week, if to 

 be reared, but fix weeks to fat. They reckon 

 that a woman and a girl can take care of a 

 dairy of 20 cows. If the cows are tied up 

 in the houfe all winter, they eat three loads 

 of hay ; but abroad two loads will ferve 

 them. The wintering price is from 30 s, to 

 35 J. That of fummer, the fame. 



The fize of their flocks of fheep is from 

 20 to 80; the profit from 7 J. to ioj-. a 

 head. The winter keeping 2 s. and 2 s. T^d, 

 They would be ready to give 9 //. a week, 

 per head, through the month of ApriL The 

 average weight of wool per fheep, 5 lb. 



In their tillage, they reckon fix horfes 

 neceffary to 50 acres of arable land : They 

 ufe four horfes and two oxen in a plough, 

 and do an acre a day. The former, they 

 calculate, cofl; them 4 /. 5 J. per annum each, 

 at an average. The joift in fummer is from 

 25 J. to 30 s. In winter, i j. a week. Their 

 oxen they keep in winter on ftraw and work 

 them on it, but if hard, give them hay. 

 Horfes they reckon do the work beft, but it 



is cheapeft done with oxen. The price 



per acre of ploughing is 4 j. 6 d\ 



They reckon that four years rent Is necef- 

 iary to hire a farm of half grafs and half arable. 



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